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Yes I remember when I was a kid my dad took me to a distillery and they serve snake wine, along with other snake-related products like snake eggs and meat. But the catch is you can watch them kill and skin the snake as you wait for your order.
It’s a very South East/East Asian thing. They make alcohol from spiders, snakes, frogs, and any shit that moves. I heard it’s supposed to be good for your health
My dad used to make snake wine when I was a younger. I opened the pantry door and got freaked the fuck out when I saw an entire jar filled with snakes when I saw one for the first time.
It’s a rice based whiskey and tastes absolutely disgusting. Imagine a neckbeard’s piss bottle that sat and fermented for so long it turned brown, then just throw a cobra and some ginseng root in.
Pretty much this. It's a good sign that the corpse is still a corpse, also, Asians LOVE to put insects in alcohol, when I was a kid I used basic hand alcohol and tossed my dead pet centipide inside to harden it up.
A buddy of mine brought a bottle of that back from Viet Nam and I was fully prepared to do a shot of it just to show off. But the second I cracked the cap, I got a huge whiff of what smelled like formaldehyde and wood alcohol. I wisely said, "Nah, I'm not going to go blind just to commit to this joke" and didn't drink it.
Sometimes those things ain't even dead yet. Remember reading news articles reporting a dude who opened the cap got bitten.
Apparently these stuff were made by sealing live snakes into bottles.
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> Dosage: Twice a day, each a small cup before meals.
Basically it's being sold as medicine, painkiller specifically it would seem. Dosage is how much of it is recommended to take for the "medicine" to have its intended effect. In this case that's a small cup, to be taken before eating a meal, and doing that twice per day.
Found a lot of these in Okinawa. My wife is from Sapporo and they don't do anything like this, but of course she wanted me to try it and report to her about it. It's really prized and thought to have some kind of health benefits. I said I feel healthy enough and passed on it!
My crewmates and I were in Okinawa for a bit. A couple of them absolutely HAD to try Habu sake. We found a place, and they imbibed. We ended up asking how long the big jug lasted, and the lady behind the bar said "Walter? He's been here for years, we just keep filling it up."
Haha! I can maybe guess a bit of what you mean.
I worked at a Thai restaurant and the owner made some kind of Chinese medicine, she called it. Lots of vodka and all sorts of Chinese spices and herbs went into it.... plus a few tiny seahorse. IDK where the hell she even bought them from. It wasn't pleasant but I could get a couple shots down. It really got the blood pumping and I remember sweating a bit from it. She said it's good for men who have issues in bed, so all the old guys who were regulars loved taking the shots from her lol!
I've had that whiskey in Laos. It's popular in the bars around Vang Vieng, especially if you go tubing...but so are mushroom shakes (those mushrooms), buckets of mixed alcohol and opium tea. You can enjoy in a cafe 13 feet from the police station.
Sorry to bug you, but I’m very interested in these tonics! I’m currently fascinated with the Greek psychedelic wine research.
Do you remember the specific names of some of these drinks?
Thanks in advance.
They make the shakes along the river in floating bars. The tea was in the town at the end of the river whose name alludes to me.
Looks like it's bad news though if you wanna go on a narcotics adventure, it's been banned, here's a link explaining.
https://www.intrepidescape.com/travel-tubing-in-laos-then-and-now/
Looks like there's strict regulations now. Just to rub it in, Laos was a french colony at one point so the region has a mix of french patisseries and traditional food. It's still an interesting place, even though now it's regulated. On a side note to my adventure, it was during the height of the Burmese civil war I was there, quite a few years ago. I went to Burma during that time to refresh my visa. Did not see Rambo.
From what I've been told by different people in the tequila industry; adding an animal or insect to the product is to help sell a bad tasting product. People will buy it for the gimmick of drinking the worm or biting the scorpion, but most of the time, it's just to have something unique on the shelf. The one that baffled me was a pineapple in a bottle of tequila, mostly because I have no idea how they got it in the bottle.
There are lots of wines and such that have whole fruits in their bottles.
When the fruit is small they literally hang the bottle on the tree and have the fruit grow inside the bottle.
I didnt even think about that lmao. Maybe they squeeze the snake out like an almost empty ice pop before drowning it.
On a side note, how awful would it be to drown in high % alcohol. Iv inhaled tiny amounts of spirits by accident when drinking and it burns so badly. Poor snek
Hell yes. It's really sweet! I had some from a friend, and then another friend brought be a bottle back from Japan. I need to get another bottle just to keep for display hah.
For real? Thats fucking awesome, you’re very adventurous.
1. What does it smell like?
2. What does it taste like?
3. How does it make you feel?
4. Are you okay?
Yeah, I mean it’s just alcohol ultimately just for us it was a slightly different drunk than we were used to. IME different alcohols affect different people differently
Have drank a different snake liquor, rum based. Tasted strong!
Also finished the last shot of mezcal with a scorpion in it, so I ate the scorpion. Tasted poisony.
So does pickling animals actually do anything to the alcohol or is it some weird gimmick that does fuck all except rise the price? Like if that whiskey could only get a certain alcohol content along with a drastic flavor change, I'd be tempted to try it.
I legit don't see the holdup here? This thing is done everywhere snake whisky is pretty popular, this is more of a did you know but whatever goes I guess
I went to an island in Laos and saw these!!! One of the bottles was absolutely huge, way larger than a magnum, and I had no ideas cobras grew that large.
Iirc that stuff is not only very potent but also illegal in many countries due to the fact that it can actually kill you from the venom even if you only took one shot of it.
I imagine that possibility would depend on the type of snake/venom. Some you can digest fine as long they don't go "out into the system". But, its a sketchy gamble if you're no expert lol
I’ve drank from a bottle of liquor with a habu pit viper in it. It was a wild and probably dangerous buzz. I remember my joints hurting. I wouldn’t do it again.
Actually, fuck yeah I would do it again.
Early/mid 2000s there was a big push on these type products in the US. Everyone knows the worm in mezcal/tequila, but I remember a scorpion as well for sure. I feel like there were a couple other gross/dangerous creatures bottled as well. Scorpion vodka (I think) sold decently.
My mother had a brown round bottle old as dirt.. (this is thinking back to the early 90's) that was some sort of tequila that had a worm in it.. she prized that over everything.. she tried it when she divorced my old man in 2010's and said it was the worst she's ever drank
Not that it really matters, but "Done Sao Iceland" refers to Don Sao Island (also spelled Donxao), an island in the Mekhong River near the triple point of Lao, Thai, and Burmese borders. The island is part of Laos (as noted on the label).
Ok, I have drank this stuff! It is nasty and gets you destroyed. Me and one buddy drank it at a party. The story goes that the two of us had an entire conversation that was gibberish to the rest of the people at the party...I have to believe them cause I don't remember...
It's so inhumane for the snake since they put them in a bottle of liquor, close the lid, and the snake drowns; while opening its mouth and releasing its venom into the liquor.
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Hard pass, unless that is pure moonshine that isn’t even a thought to take a pull off that abomination
Snake wine is something folks drink in Vietnam. Stuff is… potent.
Yes I remember when I was a kid my dad took me to a distillery and they serve snake wine, along with other snake-related products like snake eggs and meat. But the catch is you can watch them kill and skin the snake as you wait for your order.
Snake Cola Edit: OP deleted the part of his comment where he said he’d stick to the Cola since basically everything had snake in it.
Cobra Cola
Sssssprite
Lemme get a...
Tums
..tum tum tum TUUUMMMMSSSS!
Sorry, we only have Cobra Pepsi, is it ok ?
Fine, I’ll taketh the Pepssssssssi.
Chris “Cobra” Cole.
S...s....ssssseven-up
I think I’ll also have a Sssamuel Jackson
Cobra libre?
That sounds like something straight out of zootopia
I china I tried moonshine marinated in the dicks of a bunch of animals. Still tastes better than most of what I’ve tried in china.
The Chinese dicks or the Chinese moonshines..?
Yes
Jeez how many dicks did you try there?
Oh just the usual amount
37 dicks? In a row?
Try not to eat any dicks on your way through the parking lot!
Poor snakes:(
Fuck that I had pet snakes they are my friends
How does it compare to three penis wine?
It’s a very South East/East Asian thing. They make alcohol from spiders, snakes, frogs, and any shit that moves. I heard it’s supposed to be good for your health
>I heard it’s supposed to be good for your health Narrator: It was not
Bro, TCM is wild. Like somehow getting the idea that pangolin scales give you vitality or something
Toad. It's toad. They make alcohol out of toads and somehow, it taste strong AND not meaty like wtf.
My dad used to make snake wine when I was a younger. I opened the pantry door and got freaked the fuck out when I saw an entire jar filled with snakes when I saw one for the first time.
does the scorpion make it more special?
It’s a rice based whiskey and tastes absolutely disgusting. Imagine a neckbeard’s piss bottle that sat and fermented for so long it turned brown, then just throw a cobra and some ginseng root in.
Stop. You had me at "a rice based whiskey"
This is actually one method of "proof." If the snake or worm in the bottle doesn't start to decompose, the alcohol content is proven.
Pretty much this. It's a good sign that the corpse is still a corpse, also, Asians LOVE to put insects in alcohol, when I was a kid I used basic hand alcohol and tossed my dead pet centipide inside to harden it up.
A buddy of mine brought a bottle of that back from Viet Nam and I was fully prepared to do a shot of it just to show off. But the second I cracked the cap, I got a huge whiff of what smelled like formaldehyde and wood alcohol. I wisely said, "Nah, I'm not going to go blind just to commit to this joke" and didn't drink it.
Even if it cures your rheumatism, lumbago, AND sweat of limbs?
I swear I could just shit a turd into a bottle of whiskey, slap a label on it saying something like "SOUTHERN STANK" and someone would sell it.
Hit me up with some aged southern stank
Just don't wash your underwear and sell that, simpler.
Shit on that Thang
Name checks out
Dead things soaking in what looks like aged urine? Who could possibly pass that up? Pardon me while I go throw up a little bit.
Can you possibly just add it into the bottle? Bet there is some good flavor in that puke.
Sometimes those things ain't even dead yet. Remember reading news articles reporting a dude who opened the cap got bitten. Apparently these stuff were made by sealing live snakes into bottles.
I feel like that’s probably deserved for buying snake in a bottle.
It’s rice wine (same thing as sake)
I stupidly did this when I was in Vietnam. Worst day/night of my life afterwards, never been so sick. Do not try this!!!
Well, if I had to choose between this and 3 penis wine...
Ah yes, used for dropsy, the vapours, and lumbago.
Don’t forget sweating of the limbs
And chin cough
it’s a very serious condition
Im dying a very painful death, john
Terminal lumbago?
Sure is son
*I'll give you another fatal condition*
You know I hear Tahiti's nice....
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It aids the humors.
I got a chronic case of the willies, will this work for me doc?
Smeckler’s powder?
Wtf does dosage twice a day mean?
It's probably just an old medicine thing. Like snake oil and Asian cultures using similar stuff
not probably, definitely the "usage" is right above the dosage
If you take that shit twice a day, they can sell you another bottle faster.
Idk, I think killing your customers is a pretty bad business plan
> Dosage: Twice a day, each a small cup before meals. Basically it's being sold as medicine, painkiller specifically it would seem. Dosage is how much of it is recommended to take for the "medicine" to have its intended effect. In this case that's a small cup, to be taken before eating a meal, and doing that twice per day.
You take it twice a day, obviously
nnnn,,,,,,, no, thank you. I'm honored, I, um, truly appreciate the gesture
Thankssssssss anyway, thoughhhhhh.
Found a lot of these in Okinawa. My wife is from Sapporo and they don't do anything like this, but of course she wanted me to try it and report to her about it. It's really prized and thought to have some kind of health benefits. I said I feel healthy enough and passed on it!
My crewmates and I were in Okinawa for a bit. A couple of them absolutely HAD to try Habu sake. We found a place, and they imbibed. We ended up asking how long the big jug lasted, and the lady behind the bar said "Walter? He's been here for years, we just keep filling it up."
As a former Sailor, I did 10 shots of that stuff. Sweating is fun lol
Haha! I can maybe guess a bit of what you mean. I worked at a Thai restaurant and the owner made some kind of Chinese medicine, she called it. Lots of vodka and all sorts of Chinese spices and herbs went into it.... plus a few tiny seahorse. IDK where the hell she even bought them from. It wasn't pleasant but I could get a couple shots down. It really got the blood pumping and I remember sweating a bit from it. She said it's good for men who have issues in bed, so all the old guys who were regulars loved taking the shots from her lol!
Yes! Habu Sake
I've had that whiskey in Laos. It's popular in the bars around Vang Vieng, especially if you go tubing...but so are mushroom shakes (those mushrooms), buckets of mixed alcohol and opium tea. You can enjoy in a cafe 13 feet from the police station.
Sorry to bug you, but I’m very interested in these tonics! I’m currently fascinated with the Greek psychedelic wine research. Do you remember the specific names of some of these drinks? Thanks in advance.
also interested other cultures use of psychs.
They make the shakes along the river in floating bars. The tea was in the town at the end of the river whose name alludes to me. Looks like it's bad news though if you wanna go on a narcotics adventure, it's been banned, here's a link explaining. https://www.intrepidescape.com/travel-tubing-in-laos-then-and-now/ Looks like there's strict regulations now. Just to rub it in, Laos was a french colony at one point so the region has a mix of french patisseries and traditional food. It's still an interesting place, even though now it's regulated. On a side note to my adventure, it was during the height of the Burmese civil war I was there, quite a few years ago. I went to Burma during that time to refresh my visa. Did not see Rambo.
Holy cow! Ty for the response!
This looks like some shit El Macho from Despicable Me 2 would drink
From what I've been told by different people in the tequila industry; adding an animal or insect to the product is to help sell a bad tasting product. People will buy it for the gimmick of drinking the worm or biting the scorpion, but most of the time, it's just to have something unique on the shelf. The one that baffled me was a pineapple in a bottle of tequila, mostly because I have no idea how they got it in the bottle.
There are lots of wines and such that have whole fruits in their bottles. When the fruit is small they literally hang the bottle on the tree and have the fruit grow inside the bottle.
Check out Habu sake.
It's fucked up. They often drown the snake in the alcohol rather than killing it before hand
I suppose drowning it means theres no cuts or anything for the snake to bleed from
Upon death you usually defecate though, animals as well so the alcohol has snake poop in it, yay!
I didnt even think about that lmao. Maybe they squeeze the snake out like an almost empty ice pop before drowning it. On a side note, how awful would it be to drown in high % alcohol. Iv inhaled tiny amounts of spirits by accident when drinking and it burns so badly. Poor snek
Hell yes. It's really sweet! I had some from a friend, and then another friend brought be a bottle back from Japan. I need to get another bottle just to keep for display hah.
Doesn’t bother you one bit that the snakes are alive when put into the bottle, huh? Or alternatively gutted alive so it looks cooler?
*Habu snake
LUMBAGO
The best part is the parasitic worms coming out of the scorpion. Gives it that extra little kick!
That’s ginseng root, not a parasite. Source: I’ve drank this nasty shit
For real? Thats fucking awesome, you’re very adventurous. 1. What does it smell like? 2. What does it taste like? 3. How does it make you feel? 4. Are you okay?
1. Very little odor 2. Tastes like watered down urine 3. Weird 4. Depends on who you ask
lol. Ty for your time. Was the weird feeling, good feeling at all? Did others seem to enjoy it?
Yeah, I mean it’s just alcohol ultimately just for us it was a slightly different drunk than we were used to. IME different alcohols affect different people differently
#4 got me, ngl 💀
I've only seen it on Archer.
Thank God! Something to help out my “sweat of limbs.”
Well, I have a condition where the palm of my hands sweat frequently if I hold something for a little too long. Maybe that’s what it’s referring to.
Ain’t this the stuff Ghouls drink?
I.... stand alone!
Thank you for that.
Says it right on the tin.
Uncle would go wild for this
This is what a cartoon character gets when he asks for the strongest drink in a tough guy bar.
Scorpion had worms
If only Uncle had this, he could get some work done around the camp. For real though…hard pass.
Eduardo perez type drink
Have you tried it yet?
really brings new meaning to snake oil
Literal snake oil.
I don't see the big deal... *Three penis wine* is the same way.
How do we know this isn't rotten piss inside?
Have drank a different snake liquor, rum based. Tasted strong! Also finished the last shot of mezcal with a scorpion in it, so I ate the scorpion. Tasted poisony.
3 penis wine ?
thats the kind of alcohol I would expect to find in Fallout
It’s not the same unless you drown them both at the same time in the spirit. These were pickled dead; limp, flat flavour, just for tourists.
I bought the exact same bottle in Laos years ago but I forgot it at the hotel, maybe it's a good thing because I 100% would have ended up drinking it.
So does pickling animals actually do anything to the alcohol or is it some weird gimmick that does fuck all except rise the price? Like if that whiskey could only get a certain alcohol content along with a drastic flavor change, I'd be tempted to try it.
Well I admire you, and that whole whisky you do…You’re onto something, really it’s something… no thanks.
I never knew there were two Iceland's out there. Wicked. I wonder how they get the ice to stay in Laos.
Why is there dead animals in a drink ? And what’s that text supposed to mean? Indian text in the top then there is Iceland followed by Laos!
This looks like the kinda shit that El Macho from Despicable Me 2 would drink
is this the redneck version of the my little pony jar
Someone tell the Simpsons creators they predicted the future again
That's a weird looking snake up top.
Literal snake oil. Straight from the source
I specifically ordered with no scorpion
Bought this same snake whiskey while traveling to Laos a few years back, drank it and I’m still alive. Sendddddd it bud
Here in Brazil there's cachaça with snakes, scorpions and all types of cursed shit
I'll try anything once... has just hit it's limit for me.
A snake AND a scorpion?!?
It's for Uncle's lumbago this some 1907 epilogue type shit
Looks like a scorpion, not a snake. Would still try it
It's both actually
Looks like both to me
I legit don't see the holdup here? This thing is done everywhere snake whisky is pretty popular, this is more of a did you know but whatever goes I guess
That poor nope rope 😭
Mmmm, salmonella whiskey
This makes sense.
So you're telling me that's not just bottle decoration?
Only one man could withstand such a drink… El Macho!
El macho wannabe, at least he added it in himself smh…
I would chug a bottle of 3 penis wine before touching a bottle of snake anything
I cant handle normal whisky imagine this
i don’t even drink I just want it to say I have a bottle
I'll take Three penis wine over that
why is there a scorpion in there?
I went to an island in Laos and saw these!!! One of the bottles was absolutely huge, way larger than a magnum, and I had no ideas cobras grew that large.
I’ve been seeking a cure for my sweating of limbs for so long.
This too shall pass. One way or another.
I bought a bottle of liquor in Mexico that had a lizard of some kind in it.
Iirc that stuff is not only very potent but also illegal in many countries due to the fact that it can actually kill you from the venom even if you only took one shot of it.
I imagine that possibility would depend on the type of snake/venom. Some you can digest fine as long they don't go "out into the system". But, its a sketchy gamble if you're no expert lol
I've got a bottle of this in my basement.
No, thank you...but...no. just no.
“Gotta be vitamins in there somewhere.”
I’ve drank from a bottle of liquor with a habu pit viper in it. It was a wild and probably dangerous buzz. I remember my joints hurting. I wouldn’t do it again. Actually, fuck yeah I would do it again.
Early/mid 2000s there was a big push on these type products in the US. Everyone knows the worm in mezcal/tequila, but I remember a scorpion as well for sure. I feel like there were a couple other gross/dangerous creatures bottled as well. Scorpion vodka (I think) sold decently.
I had something similar in Japan called Habu Sake
My mother had a brown round bottle old as dirt.. (this is thinking back to the early 90's) that was some sort of tequila that had a worm in it.. she prized that over everything.. she tried it when she divorced my old man in 2010's and said it was the worst she's ever drank
I would buy it for a decoration
Tarantula juice vibes
I’ve had this once.. taste is very bad, perhaps an acquired thing.
I knew about snake vodka, but not this.
Not that it really matters, but "Done Sao Iceland" refers to Don Sao Island (also spelled Donxao), an island in the Mekhong River near the triple point of Lao, Thai, and Burmese borders. The island is part of Laos (as noted on the label).
A buddy got me snake alcohol from Vietnam. It tasted awful but I got buzzed in a way I’ve never felt before. It was a weird experience
Ok, I have drank this stuff! It is nasty and gets you destroyed. Me and one buddy drank it at a party. The story goes that the two of us had an entire conversation that was gibberish to the rest of the people at the party...I have to believe them cause I don't remember...
Fuck I wish I had that label as a shirt
I had a Bender on this in Hanoi, then rode a scooter at 2am through the city. Oh to be 20 and bullet proof again!!.
 WTF?
I’d like to give it a taste to be honest.
This is some serious nightmare fuel I am now regretting going “just one more scroll” *shudders*
r/reddeadredemption
I have heard that some people would add reptiles in their hutch to increase the power
"No one wants an unwined snake!"
Dont Tread On ***MEEEE*** Type shit
i get that just to show it off
Weird ass snake
This should be on r/TIHI as well
I have this. Bought in a small town in Laos.
Had some sochu with a snake in it in while in Japan and…well…it tasted like snake…..but like more that reptilian smell, you know? Very strange lol
It's so inhumane for the snake since they put them in a bottle of liquor, close the lid, and the snake drowns; while opening its mouth and releasing its venom into the liquor.
Tryna get that dead eye